Chris Gibson Quotes
When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterrence.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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I keep everything that's private private.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.
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Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject.
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At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.
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When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterrence.
